Madonna: sexual and proud

It was on a racy magazine shoot that Madonna met Jesus Luz, 22. Their brief fling appalled many. Get over it, says India Knight, women over 50 have sex too

I conducted an unofficial survey about Madonna on Twitter the other day. She was still dating the 22-year-old model Jesus Luz at the time. She dumped him last month, coincidentally also on Twitter. Madonna, as we all know, is 50, and recently divorced from Guy Ritchie. What did people think, I asked, of the once self-proclaimed "boy toy" (remember those belts?) turning cougar and hunter of toy boys?

Although there were a few approving remarks, mostly from older women who had cheered themselves up in a similar fashion (and see the success of toyboywarehouse.com if you need evidence that the older woman-younger man thing has practically become de rigueur if you're a single female over 40), the general consensus was that Madonna was trying too hard, and that watching her try too hard was faintly embarrassing, even for the legions of fans who have been devoted to her for well